Backdoor Broadcasting Company

About

Welcome to the website of the Backdoor Broadcasting Company. We are a mobile audio webcasting service, which concentrates on recording academic research. We are hired by universities, learned societies and research institutes to record their research as presented at conferences, symposia, workshops, public lectures and seminars and to disseminate it to a ready-made world-wide audience.

Once we have the recording, it is edited to the required specification and the sound is enhanced. Then each recording will be presented on its own individual webpage, with additional information, such as abstract and/or publications. Every page can be linked or embedded to other pages and all carry social network buttons, some are available on soundcloud, and you can subscribe via the RSS feed or use the podcast providers like mixcloud or iTunes,

The website here serves as the archive, which can be searched by name, date, event and keywords (tags). All recordings are free to the listener and are covered by a Creative Commons licence, which means you are free to download them and to pass them on. All legal aspects of recording and dissemination can be found here.

Should you want an event recorded, please email us. We are based in the UK, in Oxford, and currently only operate within the UK, but can be persuaded otherwise.

We also design and host websites (latest examples here and here) for research projects and institutes, as well as offering a number of other services related to the dissemination of academic research; please email or phone. You can read what our clients have to say about us here.

A good place to start is our news page, which is also our latest newsletter (sign up for it here). And remember, if you want to be kept updated of our archive entries as they occur, just ‘like’ us in the facebook way, by clicking on the FB button below…

People

The people involved in the Backdoor Broadcasting Company are:

René Wolf

Company director and proprietor

Company director and proprietor, who set up the Backdoor Broadcasting Company in May 2008. He is a radio historian and taught Modern European History at Royal Holloway University of London (publications). Prior to his academic endeavours René ran a Jazz club in London. (email)

Fausto Caceres

Website

Website and sound design. Fausto is a sound designer from San Francisco, presently residing in the PR of China. Involved in innumerable projects, from soundtracks to ethnomusicology, he is known to many as the mild-mannered overlord of Shirley & Spinoza Radio.

Tobi Mannouris

Technical director

Technical director. Tobi is an IT specialist with network and systems expertise, and of all technical wizardry, as well as being a musician.

Prices

The Backdoor Broadcasting Company is a webcasting service, and will therefore charge the organisers, not the listeners. The prices below include recording, editing, sound-enhancing, images and document downloads and of course a permanent place in our archive.

Other charges are likely to be travel, lodging (if overnight stays are necessary), additional editing, transfer to other formats, additional webspace/design, and advertising. All prices are exclusive of VAT.

Recording and hosting fees from 1 September 2018

BAND A Single events

£1.50

Per Recorded Min

a minimum of 90 minutes at £1.60 per recorded minute, plus travel.

This works out at £135, plus travel, for recording and hosting an event up to 90 minutes (with any additional minutes charged at £1.50 per minute).

Billing after recording has been posted.

BAND B Conferences and symposia:

£1.40

Per Recorded Min

a minimum of 360 minutes at £1.40 per recorded minute, plus travel for a one-day conference.

This works out at £504 per event, plus travel, for recording and hosting an event up to 360 minutes (with any additional minutes charged at £1.40 per minute).

2-3 day conferences, or conferences with multiple parallel panels, totaling 720 minutes or more, are charged at £1.30 per recorded minute, plus travel.

Part paid in advance or as arranged.

Legal

There are certain legal structures which we have to observe in order to broadcast live, archive and make downloads possible. When we agree with the organisers to go ahead with a webcast, then the organiser and the contributors will have to sign a legal document with us, outlining the following:

That the undersigned have agreed to be broadcast live and to have their contribution made available for download.

That they have agreed to having their contribution placed in the archive for free access over the Internet.

That their contributions will not be criminal, sexist, racist or unethical

That the recording rights remain with the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

That they can, if desired, remove their contribution from the archive upon a written request.

Some of the issues surrounding recording and broadcasting are legally very complex, and as we wish to operate legally and without copyright infringements, our legal documents, which organisers and contributors sign before broadcasts, state that:the content of the contribution is the author’s and thatthe recording thereof belongs to the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Should at any future date third parties want to purchase/use archival material, we will inform the contributors.

DISCLAIMER:WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INTERNET, OR FOR THE STABLILITY OF INTERNET CONNECTIONS.

While we try our best to ensure that nothing will interrupt the audio stream, we cannot guarantee this, as this is beyond out abilities. We have extremely reliable ISPs, and much backup technology, but we cannot safeguard against unknown technical breakdown.

All archival material is here with the permission of the contributors. Should a contributor feel unhappy with their contribution or recording, or simply do not want the contribution to be in the public domain, we will of course remove it. Please email us

We are a mobile audio webcasting service, which concentrates on recording academic research. We are hired by universities, learned societies and research institutes to record their research as presented at conferences, symposia, workshops, public lectures and seminars and to disseminate it to a ready-made world-wide audience.

a testimonial…

In recording, Backdoor Broadcasting are friendly, understanding, unobtrusive and utterly professional. In dissemination, they are easy to use, creative and thoughtful. They understand precisely what intellectual life needs in the digital age and I’m always happy to see them – and now expect to see them — at any paper, lecture or conference.